fun playing go ??????

I’m pretty sure that you and also @trohde (and many others, including myself for some time in the past) significantly overestimate what’s actually possible here.

From the moderately structured posts @dokbohm is making here on the forum and from him pretending to listen, pretending to really trying to learn, pretending to trying different strategies in his games and pretending to think before making a move one might conclude that he should be able to get at least a rudimentary understanding of the game.

However, by now we have seen at numerous occasions that his potential when it comes to Go is entirely disconnected from what he pretends being capable of here on the forum and is probably more somewhere around the level of a three to five year old child instead.

Let me give you one example: In this post I raised questions around the fundamental concepts of the game. In particular, I did ask the following:

grafik

To which he replied:

The issue is not so much that the answer was not correct. The issue is that he did not even begin to engage with the question really.

When looking at his games, you typically see that he mostly ignores the moves his opponents are making and that he is trying to “paint” shapes on the board with his stones instead: lines, circles, crosses and so on. He already knows where to put his next stone according to the shape he is “drawing” long before his opponent has made their move.

It very much resembles what is called the “planned scribbling”-phase in children.

But instead of openly and honestly acknowledging his limitations, he continues pretending here on the forum, misleading people into taking his Go ambitions more seriously than they actually are.

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